CATFISH CREEK REVIEWED IN NEWPAGES

The first volume of Loras College’s new national undergraduate literary magazine, published in Spring 2011, received a highly favorable review in Newpages.com, an exhaustive online listing of creative writing magazines and journals across the country.

Reviewer Julie Nichols wrote, in part:

National undergraduate literary magazine, Catfish Creek.

Loras College, the Catholic liberal arts college in Dubuque, Iowa, has inaugurated what I think is long overdue and should be welcomed with huzzahs from East to West: Catfish Creek, a literary journal “intended as a showcase for undergraduate writers from across the country and around the world.” O ye scads of undergraduate creative writing majors, minors, and hopefuls, and all those who teach and mentor said scads, should unite in praise of the concept—and the execution. Demonstrating the variety and depth of which undergrads are capable, this is a very fine first volume. May there be many more!

The order form for Volume 2 of Catfish Creek is now available from the English Department webpage. Volume 2 features undergraduate writers from Susquehanna University, Concordia University in Quebec, Bowling Green State University, Northwestern University, University of Central Florida, and more. The prefatory piece is an interview with author Alan Heathcock, author of the short story collection Volt. His work has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Kenyon Review, VQR, Five Chapters, Storyville, and The Harvard Review. Heathcock delivered a reading at Loras College in Spring 2011.